Meet the students: Miriam Bradshaw in fourth year

A few years ago I was working in a hospital pathology lab, I was earning money and was somewhat respectable. Doing full-time college, not earning money, so I could know and love God better seems more than a little foolish in the eyes of this world.

After a ministry apprenticeship and now in fourth year I wouldn’t exchange my time at Moore for anything. As someone who probably takes too many short cuts and just jumps to what I think is the ‘right answer’, it’s been really formative for me to slow down, to read the Bible carefully and listen to what God is saying, not just assume I know the answer already. I really love Church History, understanding where I’ve come from and how God has worked in human history in some remarkable ways. College has been an invaluable investment in this life to help get other people ready for eternity.

Post-college, God willing, I’d love to go somewhere where there aren’t many Christians and to be a Christian, to share Jesus with unbelievers and get alongside and disciple other Christian women. At the moment that’s looking like a context overseas, but location to be confirmed. Really I’m not too fussed where that might be, life’s too short to be fussy. I daresay I’m likely to make a lot of mistakes, to be inadequate and incompetent. But that’s ok, God has a habit of achieving his purposes through inadequate and incompetent jars of clay! It shows that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to me.

Miriam Bradshaw

Fourth Year